Filed under: General — Artflux at 12:29 pm on Sunday, September 28, 2014

Ethan Hawke’s documentary with Seymour Bernstein screening at Tiff Toronto. I attended this screening the day after Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein made an appearance. Its an amazing film that portrays a brilliant musician, artist and teacher directed by a fairly well-known actor who’s changing his creative direction. It’s currently being screened at the New York film Festival, Seymour’s hometown so I recommend you to see it.

Filed under: General — Artflux at 5:29 am on Saturday, September 27, 2014

I went the night after the screening, so I didn’t get to see the QA withAbel Ferarra and Willim Dufoe. The film covers early gay Italy portraying the Italian gay activist filmmaker Paspolini played by Willim Dufoe. I hadn’t heard him before, but apparently he had been quite a controversy filmmaker in Italy during his lifetime. I photographed Abel Ferarra’s daughter playing the violin at my studio back in the day.

Filed under: General — Artflux at 6:03 am on Wednesday, September 17, 2014

One of the films I saw during the festival was ‘Goodbye to Language’ by the rnoundd or branch director Jean-Luc Godard in 3-D. With characters that farted to the audience I admit there should’ve been a smell emmited along with the film along with the imag. There are some double exposure scenes in 3-D that force you to shut one of your eyes to see either one or the other of the images. Overall I left the theater with a headache. I don’t know what it was because I was wearing glasses under my 3-D glasses or whether it’s because of the film itself. I feel so disoriented that I actually lost my keys after leaving the theater to ride home. Colorization is somewhat overdone, but makes for an interesting effect that he played with at his age 83.